Sunday, June 2, 2013

Data Recovery Options For Crashed Systems

By Rena Hudson


In today's world of big data and data recovery there is a lot of big business in the field. The cloud services and large fast hard drives as well as super fast large bandwidth cables. There are a lot of people trying to figure out ways to make all of that faster and larger. The consumer really benefits from all of it too.

However it does not necessarily mean that at all. What it means is to simply re-establish the data and doing so by retrieving it from wherever it is backed up to and copying it back to the hard drive where it is to remain. Like mentioned above, a reliable backup system is the best way to do this and the best way to safeguard your data as well.

There is big business in this as people will do almost anything to protect what is theirs. Today there are hard drives available that in the past only the most high tech and most expensive computers would have. But now any 15 year old kid can have a 5 TB drive that is external and the size of a deck of playing cards.

First off people are afraid that they servers that constitute the "cloud" may not be secure enough to keep themselves free of hackers and other thieves that might want to break in and steal your data. Generally this should not be a worry for most people as the services and companies that run these on the cloud put a lot of funding into their security.

The cloud for instance is something that could have been developed long ago. The technology existed. People just did not come up with the idea of using storage space over the Internet for everyone who wanted it sooner. Had they done so, the cloud services could have existed ten years ago. Of course the larger hard drives help too.

People are using the cloud services to hold large files while they go from one place to another. Then once their they can recover what they need by using any computer. They do not even need to use the original computer they used to upload the file with. This has been great for people trying to transfer files to other people as well.

This business has gotten so big that it has even grabbed the attention of some pirates who have taken advantage of the services for holding large files for various other people to copy the files. Of course the authorities have stepped in to regulate this abuse but the fact remains that the service was capable of handling the large numbers of people accessing it at once.

Data recovery today is not that difficult. The hardest part is just consistently backing up your files and keeping the archive current with whatever changes you might have made. Especially with any documents that might change often. Having the most up to date one in your restoration drive can be a chore.




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